Tatkal Booking

rozario.cool

Hi all,

Can any one help me in finding out the intermediary stations that comes under tatkal quota for train 3351/8189(dhanbad/tatanagar - allepey). I have no idea of how to find the intermediary stations that comes under tatkal quota. I want to go from muniguda(orissa) to salem(TN). urgent please

thanks in advance,
Rozario

praveen_yadlapalli

try this

http://erail.in/

rozario.cool

thank u..

i m not able to view the stations that hav tatkal quotas.. it shows some server error.. Is thr any other way..plz..

Moreover the navigation in this site seems to be difficult. Is thr any other way for this problem?

thanks in advance
Rozario

rozario.cool

If i get a tatkal ticket from station x to station z, can i b able to board in station y.

Reason: Since station Y has no tatkal quotas, i booked from station x.


thanks
Rozario

praveen_yadlapalli

AFAIK, tatkal ticket can be booked only from starting station to the ending station of the train.

Yes, u can keep the boarding as any station in between

rozario.cool

Thanks a lot!!

praveengupta

Try the official railway site:
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/inet_metro_trns.html
It works well only between 8pm and 11pm IST as the general reservation counters are closed at that time

Be careful if you plan to board at an intermediate station, you need to have the boarding station explicitly mentioned on the ticket, otherwise your berth will be allocated to the waitlisted passengers who board from the starting station.

trnrao

1. In case of Tatkal, the boarding point can be changed during the booking and this does not take the boarding point location quota into consideration during the reservation process. In other words, we are free to change the boarding point to Y when travelling between X and Z. This holds good even when station Y has its own tatkal quota (intermediate to destination)

2. Tatkal used to be from origination and Destination ONLY. But these days Origination to Intermediate, Intermediate to Destination bookings are also allowed. This saves some amount in the base fare (but full tatkal charges are applicable, though).

3. It seems there are ONLY direct tatkal quotas for 3351/8189
3351 - SL-134, 3A-10
8189 - SL-36, 3A-16
You can book in any of the above trains (both are combined at Rourkela) and change the boarding point to MNGD. I tried couple of combinations of non end to end tatkal quota by those trains, but did not find any.

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Baba

... and this is the best explanation of the Tatkal - boarding point conundrum I have ever seen!

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rozario.cool

Thanks a lot!!! i have no more doubts on tatkal!!

Thanks
Rozario.

vsp27759

Dear trnrao,

I think you have forgotten about Advance Tatkal Quota. In all the trains, in which this quota is in operation, you can book Tatkal Berth between TWO INTERMEDIATE STATIONS.
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##Please look at this:
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You Queried For
Train Number Train Name Date (DD-MM-YYYY) Source Station Destination Station Quota Code
2704 FALAKNUMA EXP 21-07-2008 VIJAYAWADA JN BHUBANESWAR TATKAL
S.No. Date (DD-MM-YYYY) Class - SL Class -3A
1 21- 7-2008 AVAILABLE- 0036 AVAILABLE- 0004
2 22- 7-2008 AVAILABLE- 0036 AVAILABLE- 0004
3 23- 7-2008 AVAILABLE- 0036 AVAILABLE- 0004
4 24- 7-2008 AVAILABLE- 0036 AVAILABLE- 0004
5 25- 7-2008 AVAILABLE- 0036 AVAILABLE- 0004
6 26- 7-2008 AVAILABLE- 0036 AVAILABLE- 0004
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j99r

Is it illegal to get of at the station before the last station if you have a tatkal ticket?

If a station guy who checks tickets asks to check you ticket what is the possible trouble? (I have had people check my ticket after getting off the train at a station.) Does anyone have any experience with this?

Baba

No problem. The point of Tatkal is to make you pay for the whole journey of the train, not to make you actually go to the end of the line.

I have gotten off a train before my designated destination, but this was because of Rajdhani rules (which can also force you to book up to the last station), not Tatkal. Also on that occasion no one checked my ticket.

j99r

The railways only check people randomly at stations, but at some stations they check more frequently than others; if they had checked you there could have been some penalty. With Rajdhani etc. the idea is that the train is mainly for end-to-end users, so officially you're not allowed to get off early.

My main question is can one use tatkal to board at a starting station and get off at an intermediate station, even if one pays full fare?

The second question is: Has anyone had their ticket checked having got off at an intermediate station (with or without a tatkal ticket) while their reservation was till a later station? If so, was there a penalty?

vsp27759

Dear j99r,

With a few exceptions, end-to-end fare is collected from the passengers when they prefer a Berth under Tatkal Quota.
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After getting into the train in the Originating Station (or) at an Intermediate Station, if you opt such Intermediate Station as your Boarding Point, you can get down wherever you like, but,

i) you will NOT get any refund for the untravelled portion;

ii) you cannot use this Tatkal Ticket for any other train going in the same direction - not even in Unreserved Coaches of such trains behind you.